Making a Choice

Every now and then we find ourselves standing at cross-roads.Life is a result of the choices we make, the roads we choose to travel,the lanes we avoid to pass through,the shortcuts we make,the long drives we take,the little breaks at red traffic lights and sometimes breaking the traffic light itself ! Whether it is as simple as choosing the flavor of your ice-cream,color for your wall paint,status message to put up on FB;or a little more complex like which laptop to buy,what to cook for dinner*ask my mom and she'll tell you it is the most difficult in the world to decide what to cook every day*or where to go for a holiday;or very important and complicated decisions in life like choosing a life partner,going for a major surgery or switching jobs !

Some people find it so easy to take even the BIG decisions of life in a couple of seconds and some people take forever to even pick their hello-tune.

I, for one, am a person who is always in debate with myself,about, what to wear,what to eat,where to go,which movie to watch,which game to play,when to write the next blog :D and soooooo on.I am surrounded by so many which,when,what and whys,that i even dream about them,no kidding, exactly like the pic above ^^.

I wish it was easy to make choices like it happens in our Bollywood movies, you just close your eyes and the right choice magically appears in front of your eyes.**Remember the movie Pyaar Toh Hona Hi Tha and even RHTDM ? **Alas !In reality it does not happen **We don't even get to say "ab main aankhein band karke koi decision nahi lena chahti?**, when all you get to see/hear on closing your eyes is small bright dots in darkness as a result of some optic science concept**..

So I keep picking clues and indications hoping it is a sign from Allah to help me make the right choice, after all what we think is the best isn't always right for us and what we think is right isn't always the best for us. I would rather stick with "right" than "best". You have to have faith in the justice system**not necessarily of our country:P but the universal one,i.e. things,good or bad will eventually come to you, based on your actions and also your thoughts**

Another interesting twist in decision making is that choices aren't always in binary, infact most of the times they are not. You cannot answer every question with a plain YES or NO.Also, sometimes you cannot give a final answer straightaway because the final decision is based on the results of different steps in reaching the final answer. Remember flow charts ? I think they are a perfect example of how life moves !

The only difference is that life isn't as simple. When we move one step ahead, we don't even know whether we'll have a choice to go to the next step or will it be a dead end. Life is so much like those series of novels "Goosebumps" we read as children, they had horror,fiction,suspense,thrill and yet they were funny. The part i liked most about them was that,at regular intervals the author threw a few choices, like,the protagonist comes at a place in the middle of a forest and at the end of the road there are three doors, now the author throws a twist,

To proceed with the golden door Go to Page 27, Or,

To proceed with the silver door Go to Page 14 Or,

To proceed with the wooden door Go to Page 45 Or,

Go back and you'll be torn apart by hungry wolves !

This way, we could actually in a way make our own story. So sometimes, choices add an extra spice in our otherwise monotonous life ! If we were sure about everything, may be our brain cells would die out sooner ;)

Why am i writing this is that I have seen people(including myself) planning,planning and planning. Making castles in the air,creating a situation in their heads, writing a complete if-else-then program of their lives and suddenly out of nowhere life throws an exception !!! Your neat,precise and efficient program starts giving warnings and error messages and sometimes shuts down all together. This does not mean that we shouldn't plan about the future at all.But, lets just be alert and aware ! Lets be concerned but do not get worried. Lets not waste too much time in visualizing the future, lets not postpone our holidays, lets not forget to love our dear ones and tell them too......................lets celebrate today :)